The great adventures of a w-space dweller and his alts in Eve Online.Current project: Figuring out what's new after being away for half a year.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Upgrading the old C4 Rattler

I feel that I have tried the plexing Vargur as much as I want to.

In fact, I have quite a lot of them, and the system is now clean and nice. I have my trusty Orca and closing Scorpion in here and could easily secure the system. I was on my way moving out since I already got a bit bored - 20 minutes per site is a bit to slow, even if salvaging as you go gives you a little bit more to do while the guns dispatch of the sleepers.

I decide that before I pull down the POS and leave for something else, I should at least clean the remaining sites. After all, it should be worth closer to two billion, even with the nanoribbon prices of today. I won't go through the pain of grinding them in the Vargur thou, instead I will just upgrade my Rattler-fit to be able to cope with Information Sanctums. One night of plexing should do it.

Since I used a pair of Rattlers for C4's last time, a few things have changed;

The resist bonus is now 4% instead of 5% (per level).

The Omni tracking links now run scripts

I'm now going for Information Sanctums which is a little bit harder than Frontier Barracks I used to prefer.

I need to buff the tank a bit and maybe compensate lost range/tracking (have not checked exactly what the new Omni tracking links do to the original fit) with warpin-points for each site so I don't have to fight at 100km.

The faction invulnerability field and two tech 2 shield transports instead of one should hopefully be enough to compensate for the lost tank. I really don't like to have to fit CPU-mods in the lows, but in this case I think it's worth it.

I have also replaced one of the Drone Links with one of those nifty smartbombs I had so much fun with on the Vargur (remember: Red Giant effects!). Yes, yes, I know, it is totally incompatible with using sentries, I guess I just have to either pull drones or range when using them. This is really just for clearing the 12 sites I have left.

Little did I know that I only would get halfway through those sites before my failure to be vigilant would punish me in the worst way possible.